Sette Comuni
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The Sette Comuni (
Comuni
Comune | Cimbrian | German | Inhabitants | Altitude (m) | Notes |
Asiago | Sléghe/Schlège | Schlägen | 6533 | 1001 | |
Enego | Ghenébe/Jenève | Jeneve | 1927 | 800 | |
Foza | Vüsche/Vütsche | Fütze | 731 | 1083 | |
Gallio | Gell(e)/Ghèl | Gelle | 2331 | 1093 | |
Lusiana | Lusaan | Lusian | 2833 | 752 | |
Roana | Robàan | Rovan or Rain | 4245 | 994 | |
Rotzo | Rotz | Ross | 620 | 938 | |
Conco | Kunken | 2252 | 830 | the "eighth comune", a frazione of Lusiana until 1796 |
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Altopiano of the Sette Comuni
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Coats of arms of the Sette Comuni on the municipal hall of Sleghe.
History
The seven comuni formed into a loose commonwealth in 1310. They were historically under the suzerainty of the Milanese House of Visconti and then under the Republic of Venice. Under both they enjoyed wide cultural and political autonomy in exchange for their loyalty. This autonomous status came to an end with the Napoleonic Wars and the demise of the Serenìsima in 1807.
World War I
During the
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Asiago destroyed during World War I
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the woods of the Sette Comuni (Mount Zebio)
Cimbrian
Cimbrian has gone extinct in most of the comuni. Only in Robàan and its district of Mittebald/Toballe (Mittewald, Mezzaselva) has Cimbrian survived.
Robàan is home to the Agustin Prunner Cultural Institute, which is a repository of the Cimbrian culture and cooperates with other linguistic enclaves in Lusern, Fersental, Sappada, Sauris, the Thirteen Communities and Timau. Vestiges of the language are found in family and place names, which are mostly still Cimbrian.
See also
References
- ^ l'Altopiano di Asiago e la Spettabile Reggenza dei Sette Comuni (in Italian). magicoveneto.it. Accessed September 2013.
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